THE AMERICAN RIFLE. Upon various occasions in the pro- ceedings of the Lancaster County His- torical Society, attention has been called to the importance of the rifle in the early history of the country, and to the fact that the city of Lan- caster, and its suburban water powers, furnished a centre

Jonathan G o o d i n t h e y e a r 1 8 0 0 . M r . G o o d erected a furnace some fifty yards east of the mill' and in 1810 sold it to George and John Withers, of Black Rock fame. From these gentlemen it passed into the hands of James Hopkins, Esq., of Lancaster city' and he took into part- nership with

industries at Lititz about that time. 22 Thirteen oil mills which produced 8,920 gallons in one year were reported in the county in 1810. 23 As the production of flax and hemp gradually declined thereafter, the number of oil mills decreased until only two were reported in 1840. 24 Lancaster County oil found

EARLY MANUFACTURING IN LANCASTER COUNTY: 1710-1840 (PART 3, CHAPTER V) METAL, LEATHER, AND WOOD CRAFTS FREDERICK HUBLEY , COPPERSMITH, in the Borough of Lan- caster, makes all sorts of COPPER and BRASS WARE, in the neatest and best manner . . . in Queenstreet Lancaster, viz. STILLS, brewers

EARLY MANUFACTURING IN LANCASTER COUNTY: 1710-1840 (PART 4, CHAPTER VIII ) MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURES The Propietor of the American FLINT GLASS MANUFACTORYat Manheim, in Lancaster County, with the Advice of many Gentlemen in this City, his Friends, has offered a SCHEME of a LOTTERYto the Patronage

gunmaker was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on March 8, 1812. His ancestors on the parental side were French �Huguenots, who had come to what is now Lancaster County as early as 1716 and had settled in the Paradise Township region. His father, Jacob, who died in 1835, was a farmer near Lancaster and

. Henry Eichholtz Leman was born in Lancaster on March 8, 1812.* His ancestors on his father's side were French Huguenots, who had come to what is now Lancaster County as early as 1716 and had settled in the Paradise Township region. Several of these were gunsmiths about the middle of the eighteenth

THE LANCASTER RIFLES. Guh-making was, no doubt, one of the earliest of the mechanical indus- tries pursued at Lancaster, but I think the writer of "The Life of General Jackson," quoted in the preceding sketch, has fallen into error in ascrib- ing as early a date as 1721 to it in this place; at any